Al-Hikmah University Journal

Objective: The review focuses on the comprehensive analysis of the medicinal uses of guava (Psidium guajava Linn) and relates it with different scientific investigations into phytochemical constituents present in the plant.
Methods: Using search engines such as Wiley, NCBI, Google Scholar, Pubmed, and Intechopen; scientific papers on the plant were searched, by searching for the relevant keywords.
Results: Publications reviewed reported that extracts of the Guava plant (Psidium guajava L.) contained phytochemicals that show antioxidant / hepatoprotective, anti-diabetic, antidiarrhea, anti-cancer, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory activities in pharmacological studies, justifying its ethnomedicinal uses.
Conclusion: Psidium guajava possesses essential active organic compounds that are viable in biomedical research for therapeutic studies. There should be increasing interest in discovering new bioactive compounds from the plant through more research to harness its potential for the treatment of diseases and serve as the basis for developing new drugs.